Comments on: Driving in a Foreign Country http://blog.brillianttrips.com/2008/12/driving-in-a-foreign-country/ Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jake http://blog.brillianttrips.com/2008/12/driving-in-a-foreign-country/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Jake Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:11:29 +0000 http://blog.brillianttrips.com/?p=106#comment-55 The moment it became clear to me that I might have gotten in over my head in Romania was the second day I was there. We left our Pension in Brasov in our incredibly tiny car and we are on our way to Castle Bran. I'm on a two lane road and I see ahead of me four cars traveling abreast. I started looking around, because if this was a two lane one way street, where was the other direction? Looking for the other direction road, I almost got into an accident as the answer became clear. It wasn't a one-way road at all. The two cars in the left lane suddenly jerked back to the right side, one in front and one behind the two cars already muscling next to each other in the right lane. A second later a few cars traveling in the opposite direction sped by in the left lane, so the road DID go both ways. I had gotten used to two cars sharing a lane the day before and driving in other countries. Four cars, all next to each other, using both sides of a two way street, was something I had never seen before. Not my most stressful driving experience, that was in Jamaica. It really isn't that easy to drive an American made vehicle in a country that uses British Rules of the road, that's all I'll say now. The moment it became clear to me that I might have gotten in over my head in Romania was the second day I was there. We left our Pension in Brasov in our incredibly tiny car and we are on our way to Castle Bran. I’m on a two lane road and I see ahead of me four cars traveling abreast. I started looking around, because if this was a two lane one way street, where was the other direction? Looking for the other direction road, I almost got into an accident as the answer became clear. It wasn’t a one-way road at all. The two cars in the left lane suddenly jerked back to the right side, one in front and one behind the two cars already muscling next to each other in the right lane. A second later a few cars traveling in the opposite direction sped by in the left lane, so the road DID go both ways. I had gotten used to two cars sharing a lane the day before and driving in other countries. Four cars, all next to each other, using both sides of a two way street, was something I had never seen before.

Not my most stressful driving experience, that was in Jamaica. It really isn’t that easy to drive an American made vehicle in a country that uses British Rules of the road, that’s all I’ll say now.

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